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Two new books, “The Sirens’ Call” by Hayes and “Superbloom” by Carr, argue that our capacity for attention and connection has been devastated by the digital age In her memoir “The ...
Looking for new ways to get students reading and responding to nonfiction? Try these exercises for discussion, writing and speaking. What do you know about the Harlem Renaissance? How does the ...
February 5 is World Read Aloud Day, an annual day of advocacy to promote the benefits of reading aloud in terms of community and literacy. In her educational series of Virtuepops books, author Frances ...
The reading skills of American students are deteriorating further, according to new national test scores that show no improvement in a yearslong slide. The 67% of eighth-graders who scored at a ...
In 1831, the editor of the India Gazette wrote a report about a group he called the “Radicals”, “Ultra-Reformers” or “the Ultras”, who were responsible for an unprecedented upheaval in ...
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